Sopy

Description: The specifically Korean tradition that is reclaimed in Sopyonje is the type of folk song known as pansori described as a musical sublimation of South West Korea s collective grief and suffering in other words a kind of blues The film s three central characters are itinerant pansori singers in the 1950s a time when many aspects of Korean culture came under siege from Japanese and western influences The story unfolds through flashbacks A man named Dong ho is roaming the rural hinterlands ostensibly to find rare herbal medicines for his sick son back in Seoul but actually in search of Song hwa the woman he grew up with Orphans they were both apprenticed to the pansori master Yu bong played by the film s writer Kim Myung gon who pressured them to sacrifice everything for the art

Country:  Korean

Released: 1993

Genre: Drama

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